Friday, April 15, 2011

Friday's Weekly Round-Up 21

Richard Prince’s show, American Prayer, which recently opened at, whatshouldn’t appear so unlikely a location, the National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale) in Paris, includes, among other works, this work - and a self-professed Beat bibliophile fetish theme. Go here for videos of the show and of the artist. (Richard, incidentally, was, at one time, during the '80's, a downstairs neighbor (in Allen's building on East 12th Street), (which, just conceivably, might be memorialized here, and is certainly - "My landlord informed me that I was moving in next to Allen Ginsberg" - recollected here). Poets Simon Pettet, John Godfrey, Larry Fagin, Richard Hell, Greg Masters, Lorna Smedman, amongst others, still reside in this (NYC, East Village) building.

September 201o features a review, (by Tom Pynn), of The Typewriter is Holy. Another review of Bill Morgan's simultaneous chronological history of the Beat Generation can be read here. "I've been having entirely too much fun lately with The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan", writes the author, Ben Steelman. Not a bad opening!